“Why Voter ID Laws Don’t Swing Many Elections”

Nate Cohn for NYT’s The UpShot.  He concludes: “Voter disenfranchisement is anti-democratic, regardless of whether it swings elections. But voter ID laws haven’t been swinging elections.”

As I told the NY Times in a different article running today:

“Wholly apart from the question whether there’s going to be any demonstrable effect on turnout or election outcomes, there’s a real harm here,” said Richard L. Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine. “Nobody should be denied the right to vote who’s eligible, absent good reason.”

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